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THB[CIVIL WAR] Confederate Patriotic Covers
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LiveApr 25, 2026
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Group of 2 Confederate patriotic covers which utilize imagery with symbolic parallels to the American and French Revolutions.
The first cover features an image of "Liberty" wearing a blue Phrygian "Liberty Cap" with eleven stars and holding an 11-star Confederate flag, surmounted by the text "A Bas Les Tyrants," a French phrase translating to "Down with the Tyrants." The 11-star flag with blue canton and three bars, two red and one white, is a variation of the First National Flag of the Confederacy, adopted after the secession of the 11th state, and until the inclusion of Missouri and Kentucky with the 12th and 13th stars. Ca 1861.
The second cover is a direct adaptation of Benjamin Franklin's famous "Join or Die" snake cartoon from 1754, with the text above the illustration "The device of our Fathers their first struggle for liberty" explicitly linking the Southern cause to the Founding Fathers and the American Revolution. The cover features a timber rattlesnake cut into segments, with each segment representing a southern state. Below the snake is a quote from Jefferson Davis emphasizing unity among the Confederate states, "Slave states, once more let me repeat, that the only way of preserving our slave property, or what we prize more than life, our LIBERTY, is by a UNION WITH EACH OTHER." Printer G.W. Falen, King St., Charleston, S.C.
Two covers representing the Southern argument that secession was not a rebellion, but a second American Revolution intended to protect Southern rights, including slavery, that were being infringed upon by the North.
[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Postal History, Covers, Philately]
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